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Men Quotes by Thomas Mann
- A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those…
- A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
- A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his…
- One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
- No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
- It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his…
- The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;…
- There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from…
- To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is…
- The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his…
- Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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